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@peter269 The MCS spec has some wiggle room, also it says 'should' not 'shall' and 'guidelines'. An out of the box thinking MCS installer will wor...
It's a good experiment but how did you isolate one room from the rest of the house?
I suspect it depends on the engineer. I also suspect that they will be predisposed to disbelieve anything that the customer tell them unless they can...
I dont think this is quite right. It is definitely useful to put numbers in, but you have also think about what drives what. In heating, the driving...
All of which is very fair. Im not trying to persuade anyone on this particular matter, just identifying (as much for me as for anyone else) the trade...
I think you are right, there may be, in principle, a small capacity hit either at the heat pump level or because of the max speed through the pipework...
OK at this point I need to post a health warning - I'm not a heat pump expert, I'm just an enthusiastic amateur with a physics degree from 40 years ag...
I don't see why it has to work harder. The energy transferred from house to outside is unaffected by the flow liquid. The energy transferred from r...
or, more to the point, what maintenance is it possible to do to a 50l tank? Check the connections aren't leaking I suppose!
The change is specific heat capacity shouldn't directly affect the performance of the HP. It simply means that the fluid has to flow about 10% faster...
Ok that's good. So you could: Switch the volumiser out of circuit using the valve you mentioned earlier. Take the heads only off about h...
Sorry I don't know definitively the answer to that question. Having said that I think its much, much more likely that the 'black ink' and 'iron part...
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